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Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors



On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/04/2015, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>> Quoting Bret Busby (bret.busby@gmail.com):
>>> On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > <SNIP>
>>> >
>>> >>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility
>>> >>> Product Family your 6000 series is listed.
>>> >>> http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9LINReleaseNotes.aspx
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> Hello.
>>> >>
>>> >> I assume something bad is in the source code of that web page (it is
>>> >> aspx, so, proprietary MS stuff), but, with two web browsers - Arora
>>> >> and rekonq, running on Debian 6, I can only see a bit at the op of the
>>> >> web page - no scroll bar or any way to get to the important stuff
>>> >> lower down on the web page.
>>> >>
>>> >> Publishing a web page about Linux stuff, in MS only format, is a bit
>>> >> weird.
>>> >>
>>> >> It is kind of like the manuafacturer (AMD) wants to hide its Linux
>>> >> stuff, from Linux users.
>>> >
>>> > It is nothing of the sort. The site Works fine in iceweasel on jessie.
>>> > It should work on wheezy, which has the same version of iceweasel, too.
>>> >
>>> > Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security
>>> > perspective if nothing else.
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> What it comes down to, has nothing to do with the version number of
>>> Debian.
>>
>> I don't think that was Liam's point. You said you were running a
>> squeeze browser, 21 lines above and again 6 lines below this one.
>> That would be a security risk were it not LTS.
>>
>
>
> Liam's point appeared to be that if anyone (me) is stupid enough to be
> still using "squeeze", then they (me) can't expect anything to work in
> it.

<SNIP>

Both interpretations are correct (and I could have expressed myself
more clearly). If you are using a browser packaged with squeeze, then
functionality will be seriously impaired /and/ you risk exposure to
unpatched security vulnerabilities.

-- 

Liam



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